Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         [crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 1990 [paraphyletic?]
             Superphylum Terrabacteria Battistuzzi et al. 2004
               Phylum Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
                 Class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
                   Order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
                     Family Streptococcaceae Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Streptococcusᵀ Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         [Streptococcus lactis (Lister 1873) Löhnis 1909 (Approved Lists 1980)] see Lactococcus lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986
                           [Streptococcus lactis subsp. lactisᵀ (Lister 1873) Garvie and Farrow 1982] see Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986